Renaissance Redux

Earlier this year I went to the Texas Renaissance Festival and although I enjoyed it, I did express a little disappointment in it. It was not the way I remembered it being.

This week-end I went back with my family and things did seem to be a little bit more into the spirit of the faire. Maybe it was because it was the final week-end for the year or maybe it was having my children along that made it more festive and fun.

Violet dressed up:

I think she’s a gypsy/pseudo pirate/belly dancer.

Her boyfriend Sebastian dressed as a man from the future:

I think he came back to Fifteenth century from a time several centuries later.

Reggie came as Septivus, a character that he completely made-up:

I think he looks like “The Grim Reaper does Mardi Gras”.

Glam Clooney came with us:

She is mentally dressed as Dame Quickly from “Henry V”.

Even I threw something on:

It’s not very authentic, but it was warm and that’s all I cared about.

I loved looking at some of the other people.

I know this guy is supposed to be a pirate

But from the rear he looked like Paul Revere. I thought he should have been in a different era.

I don’t know what’s up with this guy:

But I suspect he’s the original Green Man.

I also liked this:

I guess he must be some kind of freaky Satanic birdman or something.

Maybe he’s the one responsible for this:

At the Renaissance Festival they have chicken-on-a-stick, beef-on-a-stick, sausage-on-a-stick and apparently heads-on-a-stick.

It’s a lot of fun watching all the attractions and seeing the costumes, but you all know what I was keeping my eye out for:

Thank-you guys. I intentionally did not wear a hat. I was hoping to buy a new one there. Unfortunately, we never made it to the hat shop. The scarf that I had around my neck served as my head cover when the air got cool.

My friend does very well at the Faire. Of course, I don’t see a dime of it, on account of I don’t “help make the tails” or “help sell the tails” or “do a damn thing that would make me want to compensate you financially.” But it was still cool to see his products featured on a popular blog.

He should really toss 10% of the profits my way for calling attention to his work.